But no one was more surprised to hear the supposed big news than the rapper's mother.

"My mom was actually like, 'What happened? How did you elope?' " the rapper, 23, told PEOPLE at the MTV Movie Awards Sunday. "But we were just joking around. I never thought it would get so out of hand."

This wasn't the first time that Mama Drake likely wondered about her son's romantic life – last year, he was rumored to be datingRihanna. And it didn't help matters when Drake bought himself a certain piece of jewelry around the time of the wedding Tweets.

"Ironically, I got a ring for myself, so people were like, 'Aw, you got married, and you have a ring you're wearing," he says.

Drake's seemingly innocent joke also had some additional backlash beyond his worried mom.

"People still think it's real," he says. "I'll look at a girl, and she'll be like, 'You're a married man. You shouldn't look at me that way.' "